Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2014
Experts from MetaIntell have discovered a critical vulnerability in the latest version of Facebook SDK which exposes millions of Facebook accounts at risk. Security experts from MetaIntell have discovered a significant security vulnerability in the latest version of Facebook SDK, which affects numerous iOS and Android apps exposing millions of Facebook user’s Authentication Tokens at risk. The researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2014
Security Experts at Intelligence firm InterCrawler have analyzed the effect of the crisis in Iraq on the malicious activities in the cyberspace. Cyber threat intelligence firm IntelCrawler has published an interesting post on the repercussion of Iraq Civil disorder on the cyberspace, the company has analyzed the activities within the Iraqi ISP industry discovering worrying signals. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2014
The German broadcaster ARD published a report that reveals that NSA XKeyscore has targeted two Germany-based Tor Directory Authority servers. The NSA surveillance program XKeyscore, according to a report published by German public broadcaster ARD, two Germany-based Tor Directory Authority servers have been targeted by the US intelligence. According to the report, the two cases are not isolated, in the past […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2014
While investigating on MiniDuke malware, experts at F-Secure discovered a surprising link to a new malware, dubbed CosmicDuke, belonging to Cosmu family. Early 2013 experts at Kaspersky Lab and Hungary’s Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) uncovered a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Miniduke which targeted dozens of computers at government agencies across Europe. The hackers exploited a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2014
Security researchers from Seculert firm have discovered a variant of the Cridex banking worm, dubbed Geodo, which spreads itself through email. In the last months a significant number of banking trojans have been proposed by cyber criminal ecosystem, from EMOTET to Dyreza, criminals have used a wide casuistry of techniques to deceive bank customers. The primary purpose of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2014
A letter revealed that all the US Intelligence agencies have queried the Section 702 communications content for US persons in 2013. The Snowden case has caused an earthquake in the US intelligence, it is changing the way the principal US agencies are informing citizens of the some of the operation their ordinary conduct to ensure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2014
Executing an order of a Nevada Court, Microsoft has seized domains belonging to the No-IP.com Dynamic DNS Service affecting the traffic of million users. Microsoft has executed a large-scale operation against a malware network thought to be responsible for more than 7.4 million infections of Windows machines worldwide. The operation conducted by Microsoft has brought down millions of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2014
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have issued data related to the number of RDP brute force attacks on its clients which show a worrying trend. In the June Kaspersky Lab has included in its products an Intrusion Detection System, which allowed the company to analyze more information on going attacks on its clients. Kaspersky has issued the data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2014
A Facebook experiment conducted with the Cornell and the University of California provides evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Facebook is the subject of a heated debate for a psychological experiment the company has conducted on nearly 700,000 people without their knowledge. The Facebook experiment was carried out in 2012 and was related to the manipulation of content on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2014
ENISA and Europol have signed an agreement with the intent to facilitate the cooperation in the fight to the cyber criminal activities. The fight to the cybercrime needs a joint effort of governments, law enforcement agencies and private entities. Cyber threats are becoming even more sophisticated and bad actors behind them are structured in efficient organizations difficult […]
